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Sam Cooke is my favorite musical artist of all time. While ordinarily I'd be concerned that few people reading this would know who he was, I figure if you're reading a blog on mid-major basketball recaps there's a decent chance you may be awesome enough to have come across his music before. If not, no worries, as here's a quick primer:
Sam Cooke, the son of a Baptist minister, spearheaded the formation of the soul genre in the late 1950s to early 60s after starting his career as a member of the successful gospel group The Soul Stirrers. Beyond having an amazing voice, he was also an entrepreneur, starting his own record label in 1961. During his eight-year career, he charted 29 Top-40 Singles on the Billboard Pop Charts, including such well-known favorites as "You Send Me," "I'll Come Running Back to You," and "A Change is Gonna Come." Unfortunately, he passed away at the age of 33 in 1964 after being shot by a motel manager under circumstances which were less than clear. He was selected as a charter member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and received a lifetime Grammy Award in 1999.
I only bring this up because as I drove myself home from Easton, Penn., following Lafayette 's 75-63 win over Army on January 9th, I couldn't stop thinking about one of my favorite Cooke tracks, "Nothing Can Change This Love." It seemed a fitting track to be be thinking of, as that was the night I rekindled my love for Our Game.
Now to be fair, that's a bit melodramatic. I've watched my fair share of college hoops over the last two years, but until I entered the Kirby Center that night, it had been 696 days since I had last seen a college basketball game in person. The last game I saw was on Valentine's Day 2010, as in lieu of any romantic plans, a friend of mine and I enjoyed an afternoon matinee at Patrick Gym.
Slightly over one million minutes passed before I entered another gym to witness another installment of Our Game.
The decision to go to the game was somewhat spur of the moment, as I had spent the bulk of my day staring blankly at my computer monitor trying to figure out what to write for graduate school applications. Unlike Mr. Cooke, the words weren't flowing easily out of my mouth and onto my keyboard, so I decided to take a break for the evening and Bally #23 and I took the relatively painless drive across the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border to the nearest D-1 school to my house: Lafayette College. I must add that LC had one of the easiest e-ticketing purchase experiences I have come across on buying tickets for anything ever. Within four clicks, I had reserved seats at the agreeable price of five bucks with no ridiculous surcharges to be found. Will-Call pickup was a breeze as well.
After tailing a couple who appeared to know where they were going (and who were sporting some fashionable Lafayette windbreakers) I found myself entering a gym that momentarily gave me flashbacks to the hallowed space of Patrick Gym, where I had seen countless Vermont games throughout my undergraduate days.
But after a few blinks, the similarities were less than at first glance. True, the Allan P. Kirby Sports Center had similar style fold-out bleachers, but it had bleachers on three sides instead of two, as well as an impressive overhead scoreboard at mid-court (apparently a gift from the class of 1993). The court was also in a larger venue, on the fourth side where there were no bleachers there was instead a small concession stand with a couple of sets of high bar tables (which I thought were a nifty addition for watching some #OMGDUNX while eating a hot dog) and one of those pullout divider walls reminiscent of high school gyms across America.
After examining the interior architecture, Bally and I continued my usual pregame ritual from years past and decided to sample the soft pretzel offering at the concession stand. The pretzel was a strange elongated figure eight shape, as opposed to the standard twist style. It was lukewarm at best, but it wasn't the worst soft pretzel I've ever had. I'd like to blame it on the fact that it was still about 20 minutes to game time when I had it, in hopes that maybe it just hadn't been heated long enough. If I sample another Lafayette game, I'll be sure to run a secondary analysis.
As I glanced over the game notes, I realized that I knew almost nothing about both the teams playing. And for once, I was fine with that. For the first time in quite possibly ever, I hadn't gone to a game in order to cheer for a team, but rather to simply watch what I hoped would be a an enjoyable basketball game. All I remembered from a quick glance at Basketball State before I left the house was that Lafayette had some decent balanced scoring, and that as the one-sentence BB State preview put it, Army was "offensively challenged." It was then as they were nearing the end of layup lines that a misthrown pass by Lafayette bounced over the stanchion and onto the bleachers right next to me. Picking up the basketball, I tossed it back to a Lafayette player before marveling to myself that that sort of thing doesn't happen while watching games from home.
After the national anthem was performed by a local sixth grader, the game tipped before what I'd consider a decent crowd for a Patriot League game in the middle of winter break. The attendance was officially listed at 1,544, but I'd have thought it was probably closer to 1,200 or 1,300. Whatever it was, the crowd was very pro-Lafayette, with the only exception being a small group behind the Army bench.
Had I took a closer look at the team stats page on BBstate I would have noticed a key statistic: Lafayette loves the #superhoop. This was easily apparent in the early goings of the game, as Lafayette hit their first six #superhoop attempts and opened up an 110point lead early in the first half. Army was nothing but determined though, and used some stout team defense (and a number of offensive charge calls against the Leopards) to claw their way back into it. The Black Knights were able to get the Leopards lead back down to three with around two minutes left in the half, but a lovely steal and layup at the buzzer by Leopards co-captain Tony Johnson (who was making his first appearance of the year after missing the first 16 games of the campaign with a back injury) pushed the Leopards lead to 36-28 at the half.
Lafeyette's mascot, who I'll refer to as Leo the Leopard, certainly kept himself busy throughout the evening. After giving me a high-five when I entered the gym, Leo came over during the under-four media timeout and seemed perplexed to see that I had a stuffed basketball sitting next to me on the bleachers. He picked Bally #23 up and gave him a cursory glance, almost as if trying to determine if Bally was with me or if some child had left him sitting their by accident, and or determining the caloric value of a stuffed basketball. I gave him a nod, which seemed to satisfy his inquiry and he returned Bally to me.
I did find it strange that there were no halftime contests or entertainment of any shape while at the game. I'm sure the cheerleaders were, like the rest of students, still on break, but there were no dizzy bat contests, shooting contests, or anything of the sort during the intermission. The only contest I remember clearly occurred during one of the late media timeouts in the second half, where Leo faced off against a couple of stereotypical college bros in a game of musical chairs. I'm sorry to report that the bros won, but the Leopard made a solid effort to knock one off the last chair before submitting to defeat.
The second half began in much the same way that the first half ended, with Army trying to get back into it. The Black Knights leading scorer on the year, Ella Ellis, tried to carry the load for the Knights, but every time he tried to get a shot off, a Lafayette defender was in his face. The Leopards had apparently decided they'd chance having someone else on Army make shots for a change, and on this evening that was largely not to be. Jullian Simmons was the recipient of many of these opportunities for Army, but he wasn't able to take advantage of it, going 2-for-10 from #Superhoopland. It seemed that Army's efforts to push the ball up the floor and play a quicker-paced game actually backfired on them, as it allowed Lafayette to get more possessions to launch #superhoops.
As ineffective as the Knights were from behind the arc, the Leopards were as hot from downtown. Lafayette hit 14 threes on the night and were able to pull away rather comfortably in the second half on their way to a 72-60 win. The game was decided in #superhoopland, where Army went 5-for-21 from distance, while Lafayette went 14-for-25. What impressed me most about Lafayette's effort was that there was lots of balance on their attempts, as eight different Leopards sunk threes on the night, led by junior Rob Delaney, who hit five and finished with a team-high 19 points.
As Bally and I drove home, I tried to reflect on what I missed most from countless days without basketball. In the end, I think it was the human element of the game I missed the most. The squeaks of shoes on the gym floor, the half-cooked pretzels, the oversized mascots prowling the arena. They all make up an experience greater than watching a game on any sized television ever can. Midway through the second half, a Lafayette defender knocked away a pass attempt and bellowed out "Oh yeah!" as he started off the other way. This simple exclamation was one of those little things that the TV cameras or the live stat feeds don't pick up, that make attending a live event wonderful.
While it's true that Our Game always ends in a Loss, that's no reason not to love it all the same.
ARMY 7-10 (0-2) -- E. Ellis 4-14 8-8 18; J. Simmons 4-18 2-3 12; J. Herbeck 2-5 0-0 5; M. Williams 2-3 2-2 6; M. Lenox 3-4 2-2 8; M. Washington 2-5 3-3 7; J. Springer 1-2 1-4 3; W. Thornton 0-0 0-0 0; A. Stire 1-1 0-1 2; J. Johnson 1-3 0-2 2. Totals 20-55 18-25 63. LAFAYETTE 7-10 (2-0) -- J. Mower 2-8 1-2 6; R. Delaney 6-13 2-3 19; R. Willen 3-7 6-6 13; J. Ptasinski 1-5 0-0 3; T. Johnson 1-3 1-2 3; L. Giese 4-6 0-1 10; N. Petkovich 2-4 0-0 6; D. Trist 2-3 1-3 5; S. Hinrichs 2-3 0-0 5; L. Smith 1-3 0-0 2; A. Flannigan 1-1 0-0 3; J. Pelham 0-1 0-0 0; J. Detmer 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-57 11-17 75.
Three-point goals: ARMY 5-21 (J. Simmons 2-10; E. Ellis 2-7; J. Herbeck 1-4), LAF 14-25 (R. Delaney 5-8; J. Mower 1-3; N. Petkovich 2-3; R. Willen 1-2; L. Giese 2-3; L. Smith 0-1; J. Ptasinski 1-3; S. Hinrichs 1-1; A. Flannigan 1-1); Rebounds: ARMY 34 (J. Springer 6), LAF 36 (R. Delaney 6); Assists: ARMY 7 (M. Williams 3), LAF 16 (T. Johnson 4); Total Fouls -- ARMY 21, LAF 25; Fouled Out: ARMY-None; LAF-L. Giese.

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Trinidad Guardian article.
Trinidad Express article.
PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD - By his own standards, Adrian Barath is quick to admit that the 2013 regional four-day season hasn’t gone as he hoped.
WICB Media Release.
Roseau, Dominica – Captain Liam Sebastien said it was an honour to lift the Clive Lloyd Trophy when the Windward Islands won the WICB Regional Super50 earlier this month.
Port of Spain, Trinidad – The Board of Directors of the West Indies Cricket Board met at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain, Trinidad today and following is a summary of the major decisions taken:
KINGSTON, JAMAICA - National cricketer Yannick Elliott said he is "recuperating quicker than expected" following hospitalisation due to a stroke he suffered almost four weeks ago.
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Tel : 268-481-2450
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Sunrise over Santa Anita Sunday morning
Weemissfrankie, who won the Grade I Del Mar Debutante on Sept. 3, is the likely favorite in today's Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anita. The daughter of Sunriver trained by Peter Eurton is unbeaten in two starts.
Weemissfrankie is owned by a partnership that includes skateboarding star Rob Dyrdek, who hosts "Ridiculousness," "Rob and Big," and "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory" on MTV. Dyrdek, who was out at Santa Anita to see his other horse, Mega Heat, win the 8th race, is expected to be at Santa Anita again today.
Here's the field for the Oak Leaf, which goes as the eighth race: Silent Saga, Victor Espinoza, 9-2; Self Preservation, Patrick Valenzuela, 4-1; Killer Graces, Joe Talamo, 15-1; Candrea, Martin Garcia, 4-1; My Gi Gi, Chantal Sutherland, 15-1; Wild Truffles, Alonso Quinonez, 30-1; Regal Betty, Joel Rosario, 20-1; Weemissfrankie, Rafael Bejarano, 5-2; Dreamcaster, Martin Pedroza, 8-1; and Charm the Maker, Garrett Gomez, 8-1.

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Step-by-step: No
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DETROIT - OCTOBER 03: Justin Verlander #35 of the Detroit Tigers pitches in the first inning during the game against the New York Yankess at Comerica Park on October 3, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)
Justin Verlander wasn't the best he's ever been, but still he worked eight strong innings, and he got just enough support for the Tigers to pull ahead of the Yankees 2-1 in their playoff best-of-five.
Game 3 of the Tigers/Yankees ALDS was billed as the "rematch" of the two aces, with CC Sabathia set to face Justin Verlander. Sometimes, these matchups turn into pitchers' duels, like they're supposed to. Most of the time, they do not. Monday night, there was no pitchers' duel, but there was still some good pitching, and a very good game - a game that went to Detroit, 5-4, to give the Tigers a 2-to-1 series edge.
Verlander out-pitched Sabathia by a healthy margin, but it was the Yankees who struck first, and they struck before many people might've gotten to their seats. Derek Jeter sent the game's first pitch into center field, and Curtis Granderson sent the game's fifth pitch into deep left-center field, recording a triple to give New York a 1-0 lead. That lead was doubled a few minutes later when Granderson sprinted home on a grounder.
The good news for Detroit was that Sabathia came out rusty, fighting control problems and a small strike zone. Sabathia walked three batters in the first, another in the second, and another in the third, already exceeding his previous season high for free passes.
But the Tigers had to wait until the third inning to get on the board, because they were bailing Sabathia out with double plays. Ramon Santiago hit into one in the first and Jhonny Peralta hit into one in the second to stifle potential rallies. In the third, Santiago lined an RBI single to drive in Detroit's first run, and they went on to tie the game, but the tying run scored on - wouldn't you know it? - Miguel Cabrera's bases-loaded double play. One had to wonder at that point whether the Tigers had let Sabathia off too easy.
It was somewhere around there that Verlander found his groove and shifted to unhittability. So even though the Tigers were having a rough go against Sabathia, they could have confidence that New York wouldn't retake the lead. After Brett Gardner led off the third with a bunt single, Verlander allowed all of one hit over the following 17 plate appearances, with seven strikeouts.
The Tigers broke the 2-2 tie in the bottom of the fifth. Santiago was inserted into the lineup over Ryan Raburn specifically because of his personal history against Sabathia, and whether or not that was the right thing to do in theory, in reality it worked out nicely. Santiago ripped a low fastball for a double to score Brandon Inge and give Detroit a 3-2 lead.
The next inning, Jhonny Peralta provided some insurance when he plated Don Kelly with a double off the left field wall. A sac bunt later, Sabathia was removed from the game after only 5⅓ innings, having walked six and struck out three; it was his shortest outing of the year. Even considering the tight strike zone, Sabathia simply looked off, and there will be questions concerning how rested he was after Friday night's false start.
With the Tigers ahead 4-2 and Justin Verlander cruising, it looked like the game was well in hand. When Verlander retired the first two batters he faced in the seventh and got ahead of the third 0-and-2, the outcome looked like a virtual certainty. But then:
Hit by pitch
Verlander went and got himself in trouble, and Brett Gardner stunned everybody with a two-out, two-run double hit off a hundred-miles-an-hour fastball. Out of nothing, the Yankees staged a game-tying rally against one of the best starting pitchers in baseball.
Comerica fell quiet. It wasn't quiet for long. Verlander ended the top of the seventh, and two batters into the bottom half, Delmon Young restored Detroit's lead. Young got a first-pitch fastball from Rafael Soriano and rode it out to right for his second opposite-field homer of the series, and his second opposite-field homer of the season. The August acquisition didn't look like an impact addition in August, but his timing's been perfect in October.
Back in front, Verlander set the Yankees down in the eighth, getting Mark Teixeira to pop out with his 120th and final pitch - a 99-m.p.h. fastball. Verlander allowed the four runs, but he finished with three walks, 11 strikeouts, and just another win.
He earned that win after Jose Valverde slammed the door in the ninth. Valverde had a taxing outing on Sunday and made things spicy again Monday with a pair of walks, but with the tying run in scoring position, Valverde struck out Derek Jeter to push the Yankees to the brink. Valverde's celebration was unusually subdued.
Behind 2-1 in the series and facing elimination, the Yankees have no choice Tuesday but to hand the ball to A.J. Burnett. The Tigers will counter with Rick Porcello, who's no ace himself, but one figures that Girardi will be willing to move on Burnett at the first sign of trouble, because the Yankees can't afford any of his trademark big innings. This is going to be a hell of a game to watch.

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Step-by-step: No
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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task, but instead narrates a specific baseball game. Additionally, the content lacks well-structured procedural instructions that would benefit a language model aiming for deeper reasoning, as it primarily recounts events rather than offering systematic guidance or detailed analysis. The narrative is informative but does not serve as a training resource for reasoning tasks.


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Actually, that’s completely false.
The medical definition of insanity indicates a person whose mental illness is so severe that they are no longer legally responsible for their own actions. The above statement can be attributed to feminist author Rita Mae Brown (often misattributed to Albert Einstein), who was very much not a psychologist. Nonetheless, it’s a popular quote for the kind of people who live their lives through platitudes on Facebook.
In any case, it’s still true that we’re supposed to learn from our mistakes, but with the Yankees reportedly preparing to offer second baseman Robinson Cano a “significant” extension, New York seems poised to repeat theirs.
It remains to be seen how much the Yankees will end up offering Cano. Although discussing a contract extension, at all, is a stark departure from past business practices for New York, there are other ways, yet, that talks could stall for reasons besides money. For one, Cano’s agent, the infamous Scott Boras, usually prefers that his clients hit the open market.
But, if any of the media-imaged figures turn out to have a grain of truth, it would be in the Yankees’ best interests, too, to let Cano test the waters of free agency.
Look, Cano is a great ballplayer, and not just an elite second baseman, but far and away the best there is and baseball. But that being said, it’s absurd to suggest that Cano will return a good value on a contract akin to Joey Votto‘s 10-year, $225 million deal.
For one, Cano is 30 years old and entering his decline phase. Moreover, giving a deal to a player with Cano’s skill set is less likely to pan out than some of the monster deals handed out to players like Prince Fielder, Albert Pujols or, yes, Alex Rodriguez. All those players had good “old player skills” (a Bill James concept you can read about by following this link) which will erode less with age.
Cano, by contrast, relies on skills which will undoubtedly begin to fall off — and likely soon. Being that he’s a middle infielder, much of his value comes from his defense at second base. However, his defense is rated by most evaluators as well above average, but not elite (Gold Gloves notwithstanding), so it’s highly questionable whether he’ll be viable there in 10 years.
Moreover, much of Cano’s offensive value comes from his ability to hit for a high average, rather than pure power. Bigger power hitters tend to retain more of their value later in their careers because they can still hit the ball out of the park when they make contact, even if they’re not on the ball as often.
Another point of concern is Cano’s history as a relative free-swinger. Although he took a major stride in 2012, walking 61 times, that’s a figure that’s up from 38 in 2012 and no more than 39 in five of his first six season. Plate discipline is as good an indicator we have that a hitter will age well, and that’s why players like Pujols, Votto and Fielder, for instance, are generally safer bets in terms of long-term deals.
Of course, all these points belie the question of whether or not any player is worth a nine or 10-year deal.
In any case, giving an enormous, lengthy contract and placing much of the fate of your franchise on a single player on the wrong side of 30 is a mistake the Yankees already made once (actually, more than once, but that’s a different story). In fact, the Yankees bidding against themselves, too, is a mistake the team looks poised to repeat.
When New York handed out a 10-year, $275 million contract to Rodriguez (over the head of general manager Brian Cashman) the team was absolutely bidding against itself. No team was going to come anywhere near those numbers for a 32-year-old Rodriguez. And though enormous contracts have suddenly become en vogue again (thanks largely to the two Los Angeles teams), it’s questionable, at best, whether another team would ever offer anywhere near 10 years to Cano.
While it’s understandable that the Yankees want to lock up a player they consider an icon — and avoid what-if scenarios altogether — it only begs the question of why they decided to play hardball in negotiations with Derek Jeter, for instance.
Offering Cano an enormous contract extension only repeats the mistake the team made with Rodriguez. Given Cano’s history with the Yankees and New York’s yearly playoff appearances, why wouldn’t the Yankees have the inside track in bidding if Cano hit the open market?
The Yankees’ questionable decision-making is twofold: Why are they bidding against themselves for a player who probably isn’t even worth the kind of huge deal being proposed?
Cano’s probably not a franchise player going forward, and he’s certainly not worth 10 years. If the Yankees are serious about staying under Major League Baseball’s revenue-sharing cap and running the organization like a business rather than imagining their payroll is limitless, Cano is a player who may be worth passing on.

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Step-by-step: **No**
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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task, as it is primarily an opinion piece discussing the implications of a potential contract extension for Robinson Cano. The instructions or arguments presented are not structured in a way that encourages systematic reasoning or procedural understanding, which would be necessary for training a language model for deeper reasoning. The insights are more reflective and speculative rather than instructional.


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R.I.P. Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch, 1964-2012
About the author
Justin Ward is the Editor at Live Music Blog and has been with the site from the very beginning. He currently lives in San Francisco and regularly tweets other stuff over @justinpward.
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Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing any task, as it mainly contains brief news updates and acknowledgments about musicians and events, rather than instructional content. Additionally, there are no well-structured procedural instructions that would guide a language model to develop deeper reasoning; instead, the text consists of fragmented pieces of information that lack the detail necessary for training purposes.


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Ali’s Wheels is a classic & cool downloadable PDF pattern booklet that provides the step by step instructions on how to make 3 vehicles. There is a fantastic Camper Van, Scooter/Vespa and a VW Beetle pattern. Each pattern is made using 4 ply Cotton yarn and has clear helpful illustrations. You can use Rowan 4 ply Cotton, Rowan Fine Milk Cotton or other 4 ply yarn. These made great gifts for children young & old!
Download Only £3.80

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Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article mentions that there are step-by-step instructions for making three vehicles, but it does not provide any specific details or a clear sequence of steps within the text itself. Additionally, the lack of detailed procedural instructions means it would not serve well in training a language model for deeper reasoning, as there are no comprehensive guidelines or structured methodologies presented.


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Configuring UF Exchange in iPhone 3G
To ensure best results either connect to wireless(Wi-Fi) or be sure that you have a 3G connection before proceeding with this setup
From Home screen tap Settings
Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Tap Add Account
Tap Microsoft Exchange
Enter the following information
- In email field enter “firstname.lastname@example.org” Example: email@example.com
- In username field enter “ufad\username” Example: ufad\at-svc-helpdesk
- In password field enter “password” Example: *******
- In description field enter “UF Exchange” (Case sensitive)
In server field enter “mail.ufl.edu” Example: mail.ufl.edu
Make sure that Mail, Contacts, Calendars are all set to the “ON” feature
You will be prompted to enter a passcode (PIN).
Please enter a 4 digit PIN that you would like to use for this mobile device.
You are now finished and your iPhone will begin synchronization of your UF Exchange Account

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Step-by-step: Yes
Training: Yes

The article provides a clear sequence of ordered steps that guide the reader through the process of configuring UF Exchange on an iPhone, ensuring the instructions are easy to follow. The structured procedural instructions include specific examples for each field to fill in, which would be useful for training a language model in understanding how to give precise, context-sensitive guidance in future scenarios.


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November 14, 2009It's week 10 now, three quarters of the football season is behind us. The Bruins got their motor restarted at home last week despite turning the ball over five times. Now they head by bus, by plane, another plane, and yet another bus (or two) - and who knows, perhaps by dog sled - into the Palouse to take on the Washington State Cougars in the (current) battle to escape the cellar of the Pac 10 conference this year.
The stats for this one aren't pretty, but they nearly all favor the visitors from sunny Los Angeles. The location, however, gives the Cougs their hope, that and the one statistical category in which they lead the Bruins in conference play - Red Zone defense. Not quite sure how that works out, as the Cougs have the Conference's worst defense (and worst offense for that matter), but lead the Pac 10 in Red Zone defense (the Bruins rank 4th).
Other than that, it's all UCLA but not by enough to allow you to relax on this one. On offense, the Bruins rank ninth in conference, the Cougs 10th. On defense, the Bruins get their one hopefully significant advantage, ranking fifth to the Cougs' 10th. The Bruins once again figure to have a big advantage in the kicking game, both in net yards per kick and in kick and punt returns, but freshman punter Jeff Locke didn't punt as well last weekend as he has in previous games; it will be important that Locke do his job well this weekend.
Kevin Prince et al will be glad to know that WSU is also dead last in sacks recorded as well as sacks allowed. Depending on what the weather does, the running game could come up big in this one. While the Bruins are far better at pass defense (2nd) than rush D (8th), the Cougs are - ready for this? - 10th and last in both categories.
The trip - longest in the Pac 10 - and the weather could well be the young Cougs' biggest allies on today. They are 17.5 point underdogs as we write this, but the Cougs' faithful will be quick to tell you that's the lowest margin they've faced in quite awhile. They are not winless overall having one OOC win this year over SMU. Other than that, it's been quite a struggle for head coach Paul Wulff's second Washington State team.
Moreover, with 6-3 207 pound freshman quarterback Jeff Tuel (58.7% completion rate) having dislocated a knee cap (ouch!) in last week's loss, it's not certain whether or how well Tuel can go on Saturday. If Tuel falters, expect redshirt sophomore signal caller, Marshall Lobbestael (6-3, 206), who has hit on 48.3 percent of passes to play in his place. Lobbestael got extra practice reps this week in preparation.
Perhaps the biggest question about this game - after the Bruins' mindset and mental toughness to get up for lowly Washington State after squeaking by Washington last week to initiate their one-game winning streak will be the state of the Bruins' offensive line. When Micah Kia went down before the season, the O-Line got a whole lot younger in a hurry. When Eddie Williams joined him, it happened again. On a line this young, with limited ready-to-go depth, that was a blow.
However, 295 pound junior college transfer. Ryan Taylor stepped in and played well. Then, this week, Taylor also wound up on the sideline. At this point, with freshman Big Stanley Hasiak not with the team right now, offensive line Coach Bob Palcic's options are pretty limited.
Expect to see Jake Dean to start and Darius Savage get into this game along with senior Nick Ekbatani who will likely sub on both sides of center Kai Maiava. How well the O-Line does opening some holes - and sustaining blocks while not having them deteriorate into holding penalties - could go a long way toward determining the outcome.
The rotation at starting running back will continue this week with 6-0 235 pound sophomore Derrick Coleman getting the start. Last week Coleman did a much better job, for the first time this year, really, running like a big back, focusing on falling forward after being hit. That, combined with previous starter Johnathan Franklin, also known as "Jet Ski" has had fumble problems of late that led to the change, but it is expected that both will get action and "Wildcat" formation running back star Milton Knox as well.
This season has been a lot about the schedule for UCLA. First off, the Bruins caught their first three opponents at the very start of new coaching regimes. Both Kansas State and Tennessee have had their moments as the year has moved along. Then the Bruins hit five very tough games in a row and lost all of them. This stretch might have been somewhat different had starting quarterback Kevin Prince not missed several weeks after having his jaw broken in the Tennessee game as Prince would no doubt have hit his stride a couple games earlier.
It's mostly a matter of experience for Prince who is now playing the way his coaches hoped and expected he would. With the light seemingly coming on for wide receiver Nelson Rosario as well, adding him to the reliable receiving corps including sophomore Taylor Embree, senior Terrence Austin, and tight end seniors Logan Paulsen and Ryan Moya, UCLA's passing game has started to give the Bruins a legitimate threat on offense. The question here is how the weather will affect the passing game.
If the Bruins can establish a legitimate threat on the ground, everything should open up and they should be able to control the ball and the game against the Cougs. Washington State, however, knows this and Offensive Coordinator Norm Chow fully expects the Cougars to gear their defense to trying to stop the run. With WSU not having done very well in achieving sacks this year, the way could be open for Prince to make them pay for such a defensive strategy.
The young Bruins may be feeling pretty good about themselves after last week's victory, but they had better understand that their five turnovers transformed a game they could have won going away into a nail-biter that they could very well have lost had it been played on the road.
Having won, however, means that this game, this weekend, becomes the most important of the year to date for UCLA.
A second win would keep them on track to become bowl-eligible, would extend the winning streak to two (can one win really be called a streak??), and would continue the growth of this team as it prepares for what all involved believe will be much bigger and better things in the future.
Florida State NEWS

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Cloverbelt Cross Country Meet Changed
Thursday, October 11th, 2012 -- 9:41 am
Posted by Larry Hoeser, Sports Director
The site of the High School Cloverbelt Conference Cross Country meet has been moved.
It will be held this Sat., Oct. 13 at Fall Creek High School.
The boys will start at 10:30 am.
The girls will start at 11:00 am.

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Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article does not present a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task; rather, it is a straightforward announcement regarding a schedule change for a cross country meet. Additionally, the instructions provided are not structured or detailed enough to facilitate training a language model in deeper reasoning, as they lack elaboration and context beyond the essential event details.


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Time to shut down the surplus firefox tabs again, so here are a few of the pages I've been sitting on:
-Hotrod Havoc Trailer
via Slim' s Fabrication
-The Evolution of the Terrible One Barcode
This story on CycleExif included a link to this document about the evolution of the Barcode frame. It's a very interesting read that shows the slow and steady evolution of something as seemingly simple as a BMX frame.
-All about the details
Fantastic semi-subversive campaign for Amnesty International
via The Cool Hunter
-What to do when you out grow you XR50
via Death Spray Customs
This is amazing!
via Bike Jerks
-Doing as you're told
Nice demonstration of the public's propensity to follow the rules.
via Wooster Collective
via Two Wheels +
I highly recommend checking out each of the links to the origin sites as they are all great and varied sources of inspiration and information.
No Lane Splitting For Nevada
2 hours ago

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Step-by-step: No
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No big shocking news here, I think all Blazer fans know by now not only is Oden always getting injured it takes him twice as long to recover than the average player. We have another good 4 months before training camp starts and hopefully by then he will be healthy and in shape ready to go. Assuming he is ready to go I think the Blazers should take advantage of this rare opportunity and take off the training wheels and see what he can really do playing 32-34 minutes vs his 22-24 he has averaged so far in his brief 82 game career. So far he has played only 6 games where he has played 32 minutes or more and in spite of picking up a foul per every 5 and half minutes played has only fouled out 5 times.
I would like to see that all change by employing what I would like to call the "ODEN PLAN". At the end of every game at least one of four things MUST happen #1 Played at least 32 minutes #2 Fouled out #3 Ejected #4 Carried out, no exceptions win or lose does not matter. To accomplish this monumental feat I think a firm set in stone minutes per quarter should be set, something like the first 10 minutes in the 1st quarter and the last 8 of the second and the same plan in the second half. Do not worry about fouls, if he picks up 6 fouls in the first quarter so be it its not like we have never played without him before no big deal. Maybe he can learn from the experience and possibly the reffs will have second thoughts about fouling a guy out before the first half is even over. A new contract is coming up and we really need to find out if he is even capable of playing 30+ minutes night in and night out, but hopefully we will take this opportunity and find out before he goes down once again.

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Training: No

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You don’t have to make this the way I made this. Making things more difficult than necessary is the way I do things, but I understand that I am a weirdo. Feel free to buy corned beef at the deli instead of brining and boiling your own brisket. I’m sure you can also pick up some perfectly respectable rye bread. I draw the line at using Thousand Island salad dressing instead of mixing up a few ingredients for the traditional Russian dressing (which is similar, but not identical, to Thousand Island).
I make mayonnaise-based baked dips exactly once a year, for the Super Bowl. Because I love them, but they are, after all, a bowl of fat that you spread on carbs. This was our third-quarter snack, and even after a quarter of chips and dips and another of vegetables with dip, we scarfed down a considerable amount of this dip.
My biggest worry with this recipe was that it was not a sandwich, as reubens are one of Dave’s favorite foods. I was fully expecting Dave to consider this “good…but I’d rather just have a reuben.” He said nothing of the sort. Now that’s a good dip – fully worthy of being my one choice this year, and, it goes without saying, of the time I spent obsessively making most of the components from scratch.
See that thick layer of swiss cheese on top? Don’t do that. Let the mixture itself brown, not just the cheese. There’s no need to have a layer of cheese armor on top of the dip.
I used the food processor to shred the cheese, chop the meat, and mix everything. All that mixing probably accounts for the uniform grey-ness of my dip. Another factor is that my home corned beef is more of a muted purple color than storebought version because it doesn’t have the nitrates that keep the meat red.
I just actually read through that allrecipes recipe for the first time, and apparently it doesn’t call for mixing all of the ingredients together anyway, just layering them. That might make this more attractive too. Although sometimes taste trumps looks, and ugly food is okay.
¼ cup mayonnaise
2 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon ketchup
1 tablespoon grated onion
1 tablespoon horseradish
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons minced parsley
8 ounces sauerkraut, rinsed and squeezed dry
4 ounces corned beef, shredded
6 ounces (1½ cups) shredded Swiss cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, mix the mayonnaise, cream cheese, ketchup, onion, horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, and parsley until evenly combined. Stir in the sauerkraut, beef, and cheese. Spread the mixture in a 1-quart casserole dish. Bake 20-25 minutes, until bubbling and golden. Serve with rye bread.

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This is the most fuel-efficient vehicle for sale in North America in 2006.
A. Toyota Prius
B. Honda Insight
C. Volkswagen Golf TDI (Diesel)
D. Smart Fortwo Coupe
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Don Simon – "Priveşte înainte cu mînie" (Look forward with anger)
Liviu Radu – "Complexul lui Oedip" (The Oedip's complex)
Ladislau Daradici – "Şobolanul" (The Rat)
Ana-Veronica Mircea – "Rayadatis" (Rayadatis)
Andrei Valachi – "Călătorie prin natură moartă alternată cu peisaj românesc" (Journey through still life alternate with Romanian landscape)
Cotizo Draia – "Aşteptînd la Sargos" (Waiting at Sargos)
Ana-Maria Negrilă – "Împăratul de îngheţată" (The Emperor of icecream)
Val Antim – "Fenomen inexplicabil de violare" (Unexplained phenomenon of violation)
Radu Pavel Gheo – "Cîinii nu pot iubi" (Dogs can't love)
Mihail Gălăţanu – "Răzbunarea" (The revenge)
Voicu Bugariu – "Ucigaşul melcilor" (The snails' killer)
Ovidiu Bufnilă – "Apocalipsa după Buf" (The apocalypse after Buf)
Costi Gurgu – "În umbra legii" (In the shadow of the law)
Mirel Palada – "Pîndarul" (The watchman)
Florin Pîtea – "Veniţi afară!" (Come outside!)
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
I don’t know exactly how this title skipped my radar, but it is better that I found it later than not at all. “The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart” is the debut novel of Jesse Bullington, was released by Orbit Books a few days ago, and comes with an intriguing and interesting synopsis, one that picked my interest as soon as I read it. The novel has a very catchy trailer too, which I enjoyed quite a lot, and if you are interested in an excerpt of the novel to get another image of the novel you can find one at Orbit’s website. I already put this novel on my next shopping list.
In the plague-wracked and devil-haunted darkness of Medieval Europe, an elite few enjoy opulent lives while the majority eke out a miserable existence in abject poverty. Hungry creatures stalk the deep woods and desolate mountains, and both sea and sky teem with unspeakable horrors. For those ill-fated masses not born into wealth, life is but a vicious trial to be endured before the end of days.
Hegel and Manfried Grossbart could give a toss. Being of low birth means little, after all, when the riches of the mighty wait just inside the next crypt. The grave-robbing twins know enough about crusading to realise that if one is to make a living from the dead, what better destination than the fabled tomb-cities of Egypt?
But the Brothers Grossbart are about to discover that all legends have their truths, and worse fates than death await those who would take the red road of villainy . . .
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Countering the various and increasingly desperate agents and factions is Paula Myo, a ruthlessly single-minded investigator, beset by foes from her distant past and colleagues of dubious allegiance...but she is fast losing a race against time.
At the heart of all this is Edeard the Waterwalker, who once lived a long time ago deep inside the Void. He is the messiah of Living Dream, and visions of his life are shared by, and inspire billions of humans. It is his glorious, captivating story that is the driving force behind Living Dream’s Pilgrimage, a force that is too strong to be thwarted. As Edeard nears his final victory the true nature of the Void is finally revealed.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Lately I enjoy more and more seeing book trailers. I know that this is a type of publicity and not always my experience with the movie trailers (because these are the ones I see more) is not the best, but because of them I have a better idea about the movie. With the book trailers it doesn’t go the same, because I have more information about the novels in question before seeing the trailer, but from the all kinds of publicity I think that the trailers are the one I get along with best. The latest book trailer I saw is for the Stephen King’s novel, “Under the Dome”, released two days ago, on 10th of November and I have to admit that it is one of the best I’ve seen. I really like it and it is close with what I have in mind about this novel. And it added yet another reason (I believe that Stephen King was a reason enough for me anyway) for me to pick the novel, leaving me wondering only if I should wait for the paperback edition or order the hardcover one.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Last year the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy was founded and its first edition was welcomed with over 10,000 votes around the world. The first ceremony was held this year in June in London and the first winner was Andrzej Sapkowski for his second work translated in English, “Blood of Elves” (and the one I voted for). The nominations for this year David Gemmell Legend Award haven’t been announced yet, but exciting news came from the organizers. This year, besides the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy, two more categories will be rewarded, “The Morningstar Award for Best Newcomer” and “The Ravenheart Award for Best Fantasy Cover Art”.
The Morningstar Award will give recognition to emerging talent in the field of fantasy fiction. As David Gemmell always took a keen interest in new writers, and helped many onto the path to publication, we regard this as an appropriate category to add, and one we feel sure David would have approved.
The Ravenheart Award will honour the best fantasy book cover art. The importance of fantasy cover art deserves admiration, as do the artists who produce it, yet there is no major UK award acknowledging this. The Ravenheart Award will fulfil that role.
I am excited about these two new categories, especially for The Ravenheart Award, since I love fantasy art and the artwork for book covers and I tried to promote it us much as possible here on my blog. The addition of these two categories is praiseworthy and it remains now only to see the nominations for this year awards.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Life Achievement: Ellen Asher & Jane Yolen
Best Novella: "If Angels Fight" by Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)
Best Short Story: "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson (Asimov's 7/08)
Best Collection: "The Drowned Life" by Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
Best Artist: Shaun Tan
Congratulations to all the winners!

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Step-by-step: No
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Daphne prepared this dish with what she found already in one viewer's fridge. Try the same thing at your home!
Fridge Raider Frittata
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 onion (chopped)
- 1 baked potato (crumbled)
- 1/2 cup leftover grilled veggies
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 cup cream
- 1/4 cup cheddar cheese (shredded)
- 1 cup leftover bruschetta
- Heat oven to 350.
- Place olive oil in small non stick skillet. Add onion and potato, cook for 2 minutes. Add grilled veggies to heat.
- In a small bowl, whisk together eggs and heavy cream. Season to taste.
- Add egg mixture to pan. Top with cheddar cheese. Place in oven for 6-8 minutes.
- Remove from pan. Top with bruschetta and serve with bagels.

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Step-by-step: Yes
Training: No

The article does provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing the recipe, guiding the reader through the process in a logical manner. However, the instructions lack sufficient detail and context that would support deeper reasoning or understanding of the procedure—such as explaining why certain ingredients are combined or the desired outcomes at each stage, which are essential for training a language model for more complex reasoning tasks.


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Posted by Lord Spatula I, King & Tyrant @ 16:26
Denizens, remember the bully in school who could dish out the abuse, but call him a name and he ran off crying to the teacher?
Well, that snot-nosed little fuckface, and a lot of his buddies, grew up to be Demoscum in Congress – and they’re employing the same MO: They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.
White House adviser Karl Rove should either apologize or resign for saying liberals responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes by wanting to “prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers,” Democrats said Thursday.
Awwwwwww, whassa matter, little fuckwits? What, you can compare our troops to Nazis and the like, but we can’t tell the truth about your skanky asses? I mean, you bastards were the ones stating that we should understand why they hate us so…weren’t you?
Adding to the rancor, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested that Republican charges that Democrats were undermining the war on terror with their criticism of administration policies amounted to an act of desperation.
Only an act of desperation for you, bimbo. And everytime you keep your ugly piehole closed while some ass like Big Dickhead Turban opens his, you drive the point home to the American people even more. There’s a reason you people lost the election by five million votes, and it ain’t because you failed to get your hate-filled message out, y’know.
“The president wanted to go to Iraq in the worst possible way and he did,” Pelosi said. “The president is on the ropes.”
I wouldn’t gloat if I were you, little bimb-ette. I seem to remember a boxer who spent much of his career deliberately hanging close to the ropes and letting his opponent flail away. Won most of those fights, too.
Let’s see…what was his name again…Ali?
Bush’s chief political adviser, Rove said in a speech Wednesday that “liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.” Conservatives, he told the New York state Conservative Party just a few miles north of Ground Zero, “saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.”
Rove said the Democratic Party made the mistake of calling for “moderation and restraint” after the terrorist attacks.
Democrats were quick to respond – and in growing numbers.
“Karl Rove should immediately and fully apologize for his remarks or he should resign,” Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a statement. “I hope the president will join me in repudiating these remarks.”
“Dad-deeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Karl said something mean about us!!!! Make him stopppppppppp!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean called on Bush to “show some leadership and unequivocally repudiate Rove’s divisive and damaging political rhetoric.”
Same Dr. YEARRRRRRGH!!! who accused us of wanting to live in a theocracy; same one who has already tried & convicted an innocent man; same one derisively calling us “a white Christian party” – wants the President to “repudiate…divisive & damaging political rhetoric”?
Give. Me. A. Fucking. Break
The White House defended Rove’s remarks and accused Democrats of engaging in partisan attacks. Rove, said spokesman Scott McClellan, “was talking about the different philosophies and our different approaches when it comes to winning the war on terrorism.”
During a Senate hearing on Iraq in which Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other military leaders testified, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., read Rove’s statement and urged them to reject the remarks.
“I would hope that you and other members of the administration would immediately repudiate such an insulting comment from a high-ranking official in the president’s inner circle,” Clinton said.
This is the same person that called us a “vast right-wing conspiracy” after we kicked her husband’s ass but good over his intern problem.
Earlier in the day, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said New York has had unity since Sept. 11. “To inject politics into this and to defame a large number of people” is outrageous, he said. “It’s not what New York and America is all about.”
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said nearly 3,000 Americans died on Sept. 11 and “we should not dishonor their memory by using that tragic day for political trash talk.”
I see. And where were you during Big Dickhead Turban’s Nazi remarks?
Eh? How’s that again?
During the 2004 campaign, Bush dismissed the notion of negotiating with terrorists and said, “You can’t sit back and hope that somehow therapy will work and they will change their ways.”
On Wednesday, Rove also denounced Sen. Dick Durbin’s comments comparing interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to the methods of Nazis and other repressive regimes. He said the statements have been broadcast throughout the Middle East, putting U.S. troops in greater danger. The Illinois Democrat has since apologized for the remarks.
“No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals,” Rove said.
Seven House Republicans also wrote Pelosi saying they were shocked by a statement in which she said the war in Afghanistan was over. “Messages like yours could demoralize our troops and undermine our efforts to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and around the world,” they wrote.
Pelosi, who made the comment at a news conference where Democrats called for an investigation into detainee abuses at Guantanamo Bay, said Thursday that she was referring to the campaign to drive the Taliban from power in 2001. Fighting continues, she said, because the administration decided to divert its attention from Afghanistan to the war in Iraq.
You see, Denizens? They can dish it out – but they can’t take it. Just like the schoolyard bully.
And – as I’ve been constantly telling you – there’s only one way to deal with the schoolyard bully.
Get ready to lock & load, sportz fanz.
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The article does not present a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task; rather, it consists of a heated political commentary without procedural guidance. Furthermore, the lack of structured and coherent instructions means it would not serve as a useful training material for a language model aimed at deeper reasoning. The tone is more about expressing grievances than teaching a methodology or process.


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Connecting to the network
To connect your Xbox to the Gustavus Network you will need to locate your MAC address (See instructions below). Once you know your MAC address, please visit register.gac.edu to complete the registration. Follow the onscreen instructions.
Finding your MAC address
- Make sure you don't have a game disc in the disc tray, and turn on your XBox console.
- From the XBox Dashboard, choose Settings.
- From the Settings screen, select Network Settings.
- The MAC address is the 12-digit number at the bottom-right corner of the Network Settings screen.
Visit register.gac.edu with your MAC address from any computer to register your Xbox on the Gustavus Network.
If you are in need of Xbox repair
Please call the Xbox Helpline at 1-800-4-MY-XBOX.

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Step-by-step: Yes
Training: Yes

The article provides a clear sequence of ordered steps for connecting an Xbox to the Gustavus Network by detailing the process of finding the MAC address and registering the console. The instructions are straightforward and well-structured, allowing the reader to follow along easily, which is beneficial for training a language model in reasoning through procedural tasks. Furthermore, the clarity and order of the steps encourage deeper thinking as the reader processes each action before moving to the next.


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Photo by Lara Ferroni
YIELD: Makes 8 to 10 servings
ACTIVE TIME: 1 hour
TOTAL TIME: 4 hours
Heat oven to 425°F with rack in lowest position. Discard any excess fat from inside turkey cavity. Pat dry inside and out.
Stir together butter, sage, lemon zest, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper in a small bowl. Grate enough zest from orange to measure 1 teaspoon and add to butter mixture. Quarter orange lengthwise and reserve.
Starting at (smaller) neck cavity, gently slide an index finger between skin and flesh of breast to loosen skin (be careful not to tear skin). Push butter mixture evenly under skin on both sides of breast, and rub skin from outside to distribute butter evenly.
Sprinkle 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in turkey cavities.
Stuff neck cavity (smaller cavity) with a few orange and onion wedges, then fold neck skin under body and secure with metal skewers.
Stuff larger cavity with remaining onion and orange wedges, then tie drumsticks together with kitchen string and tuck wings under body.
Put turkey on rack in roasting pan and sprinkle skin all over with 1 1/2 teaspoons salt (if you are using a kosher turkey, see the Cooks' note) and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Add 1 cup water to pan and roast turkey 30 minutes at 425°F.
Reduce oven temperature to 350°F. Rotate turkey 180 degrees and roast 30 minutes. Rotate turkey again 180 degrees and baste with pan juices. Tent turkey loosely with foil and continue to roast, rotating and basting with juices every 30 minutes (if pan becomes completely dry, add 1/2 cup water) until an instant-read thermometer inserted into fleshy part of thighs and thickest part of breasts (test both sides, close to but not touching bone) registers at least 165°F, about 1 1/2 to 2 hours more. (Total roasting time will be 2 1/2 to 3 hours.)
Carefully tilt turkey so juices in large cavity run into pan. Transfer turkey to a platter, reserving juices in pan. Let turkey stand, uncovered, 30 minutes. Discard onions and oranges from large cavity and wait to discard onions and oranges in smaller cavity until they are accessible during carving.
Make gravy while turkey stands:
Pour pan juices through a fine-mesh sieve into 2-quart glass measure (do not clean roasting pan), then skim off and discard fat. (If using a fat separator, pour pan juices through sieve into separator and let stand until fat rises to top, 1 to 2 minutes. Carefully pour pan juices from separator into measure, discarding fat.)
Position roasting pan across 2 burners, then add 1 cup water and deglaze roasting pan by boiling over high heat, stirring and scraping up brown bits, 1 minute. Pour through sieve into measure containing pan juices. Add enough turkey stock to pan juices to bring total to 4 cups (if stock is congealed, heat to liquefy).
Melt butter in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over medium-low heat and whisk in flour. Cook roux, whisking, 3 minutes. Add stock mixture in a stream, whisking constantly to prevent lumps, then bring to a boil, whisking occasionally. Stir in any turkey juices accumulated on platter and simmer, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes. Season gravy with salt and pepper.
Cooks' note: If using a kosher turkey, reduce the salt sprinkled on the skin to 1 teaspoon.

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**Step-by-step: Yes**
**Training: Yes**

The article provides a clear sequence of ordered steps for roasting a turkey and making gravy, guiding the reader through the entire process in a logical and structured manner. Each step is detailed, offering specific instructions on preparation, cooking times, and temperature adjustments, which enhances clarity and encourages deeper reasoning, particularly in understanding the timing and methods involved in cooking.


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Shop Talk - November 15
Macomb, IL – The panelists discuss media coverage of the scandal at Penn State University.
Former PSU football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky is charged with 40 criminal counts of molesting young boys. Legendary head football coach Joe Paterno lost his job as a result of the scandal and the university president was also dismissed.
Those who rioted over Paterno's firing blamed the media, while other people blamed the media for not focusing enough attention on the victims of the alleged assaults. Panelist Bill Knight points out the media was right in the middle of the situation, accurately reporting on the criminal allegations as well as a candle light vigil held in support of the victims.
The Poynter Review Project Blog criticized ESPN for being slow to respond to the story and failing to grasp its severity. For example, one ESPN blogger questioned how the scandal might impact recruiting at PSU.
Panelist Mike Murray says it can be difficult for a journalist to turn on a dime and report on what went wrong at a institution that had been so highly praised for many years. But panelist Rich Egger feels sports reporters write too many fluffy features and need to be better prepared to cover serious sports news too.

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Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps; rather, it discusses the media coverage of a specific scandal and presents various perspectives from panelists without outlining a procedural approach for completing any specific task. Additionally, the instructions or discussions presented are not structured in a way that could train a language model for deeper reasoning, as they lack detailed guidance or a systematic methodology for analyzing or responding to similar scenarios.


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Miami Heat star LeBron James hit South Beach on Friday to shoot a commercial for Nike.
Local 10 spotted LeBron running shirtless toward the ocean near 13th Street. A large number of people riding bikes and skateboards were also involved in the shoot.
As production crews called out commands, excited tourists and residents snapped video and photos.
An actress named Pebbles said the commercial is for his upcoming shoe release.
"I've had a lot of fun, so we're all just taking it in and enjoying it and it's really good," she said. "The only thing that's killing us right now is the heat."
Nike's LeBron X Low "Watermelon" will be released Saturday.

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Oct 21, 2013, 12:46 PM EDT
The Buffalo Sabres and San Jose Sharks each brought rookies up from their AHL affiliates on Monday — the Sabres recalled 2013 first-rounder Rasmus Ristolainen from AHL Rochester while the Sharks recalled forwards Freddie Hamilton and John McCarthy.
Ristolainen, the eighth overall selection in this year’s draft, has played in eight games for the Sabres this season and was brought back to Buffalo after a quick 48-hour trip to Rochester.
The 18-year-old has gone scoreless over his eight NHL games, recording one penalty and a minus-4 rating.
As for the Sharks, they recalled Hamilton and McCarthy at the expense of forward Matt Pelech, who has been returned to AHL Worcester.
McCarthy, 27, has 53 career NHL appearances — including two this season — while Hamilton, the older brother of Boston defenseman Dougie Hamilton, has yet to make his NHL debut.
- ‘Could’ve broken his neck,’ says Vigneault of Byfuglien cross check on Miller 7
- Video: Byfuglien gets away with ugly cross check, penalized late in Jets loss to Rangers 22
- Video: Lucic scores late winner, Bruins deal crushing blow to Panthers playoff hopes 7
- Video: Ovi becomes sixth player in history to record six 50-goal seasons 13
- ‘Almost like a game seven tonight’ for Bruins, Panthers 15
- Report: Warrant issued for Deveaux’s arrest following Swedish league attack 47
- How bad are things for the Kings after Monday? 21
- Lightning clinch playoff berth, but did they lose Hedman? 9
- Blackhawks tease good injury news for Kane 8
- Tough times in Tampa: Garrison out 3-4 weeks after ‘pretty dirty’ Abdelkader hit 22

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a specific task; instead, it offers a summary of recent events in the NHL regarding player recalls. Additionally, the content is not structured as procedural instructions, lacking detail and clarity that would support the training of a language model for deeper reasoning. The information is more news-oriented rather than instructional, which does not encourage analytical thinking or complex understanding.


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Holy Name's Hillary Monger finishes third in the 100 hurdles at the 2007 PIAA Championships.
Holy Name hurdling standout Hillary Monger signed a letter of intent Wednesday to run for Division I Robert Morris (Pa.).
Monger, who signed the letter on the first day of the national signing period, chose Robert Morris over other Division I suitors, including James Madison, Temple and Mount St. Mary’s and Division II West Chester.
“It was just the perfect fit for me,” Monger said of Robert Morris’ campus in suburban Pittsburgh. “It was the coaches, and the team and just the whole atmosphere.”
The Colonials compete in the Northeast Conference.
Since the end of her freshman season, Monger has been a mainstay in the Berks Big Three, District 3-AA and PIAA Class AA meets.
The Blue Jays senior is coming off a stellar 2007 spring, during which she won her first district championship and earned All-Berks honors for the second straight season.
After taking 3-AA gold in the 100-meter hurdles and silver in the 300 hurdles, Monger won bronze a week later in the PIAA Class AA 100 hurdles.
Monger took the 300 hurdles and 100 hurdles titles at Wyomissing’s Shaner Meet and was the 300 hurdles champ at Wilson’s Stephan Meet.
In her breakout sophomore season of 2006, Monger was All-Berks in both hurdling events after claiming Berks titles in the both at the county-championship Firing Meet.
She also won the Shaner Meet’s 300 hurdles crown and finished the season with a Berks Best in the 300 hurdles.
At the 3-AA meet, she won 100 hurdles silver and 300 hurdles bronze, then took a seventh-place medal home from the PIAA Class AA 100 hurdles.
As a freshman, Monger finished fourth in the 3-AA 100 hurdles and second in the 3-AA 100 hurdles.
Monger plans to major in nursing.

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NEW YORK – The 44th-ranked Columbia men’s tennis team will begin its Ivy League schedule this Saturday, March 30 when it hosts No. 41 Cornell at the Dick Savitt Tennis Center. The Lions and Big Red will begin competition at 2 p.m.
Columbia (10-5) will enter Saturday’s match well-rested after competing six times in an eight-day span over Spring Break. The Lions opened the trip in Montgomery, Ala. at the Blue-Gray Invitational, going 2-1 with wins over William & Mary and No. 38 Nebraska. Columbia then headed west for three matches in the Lone Star state, also going 2-1 in that span. Victories over Southern Methodist and Texas-Arlington highlighted the road trip.
The Lions’ top doubles duo of Ashok Narayana and Max Schnur picked up the No. 36 ranking in the latest ITA poll after winning their last three matches. Narayana and Schnur were critical to Columbia’s win over SMU, edging No. 79 Arturs Kazljevs and Mischa Mowicki, 9-8.
Winston Lin, the Lions’ top singles player, boasts a 9-4 record this season and is ranked No. 52 in the nation. Lin’s nine wins is just one shy of Schnur who leads the team with 10, including a 7-1 mark as Columbia’s No. 4.
Cornell stands at 11-4 on the year and dropped from No. 33 to No. 41 in the latest ITA poll after going 2-2 on its Spring Break trip. The Big Red also represented the Ivy League at the Blue Gray Invitational, going 1-2 with its lone win coming against William & Mary. Cornell capped the trip with a victory at Central Florida.
Columbia and Cornell met earlier this season in the finals at the ECAC Indoor Championships. After Cornell narrowly took the doubles point, the Big Red captured the first three singles matches to finish for the 4-0 victory. The Lions and Big Red split their meetings last season, with Cornell winning once again at the ECAC Championships, before Columbia exacted revenge with a 4-3 win to start the Ivy League season.

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps or detailed instructions for completing a specific task. Instead, it offers a narrative about a tennis match, including team standings and recent performances, which do not lend themselves to training a language model for deeper reasoning or procedural understanding. The lack of structured, sequential information means there's nothing to guide a user through a process systematically.


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Game preview: Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Chicago Blackhawks
Lightning vs. Blackhawks
When/where: 7:30; St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa
TV/radio: Sun Sports; 620-AM
Injuries: Tampa Bay —
D Jamie Heward (concussion), G Mike Smith (concussion), G Olie Kolzig (arm) and D Andrej Meszaros (arm) are out;
D Paul Ranger (upper body) is day to day.
Chicago — D Brent Sopel (undisclosed), RW Patrick Sharp (knee) and
G Nikolai Khabibulin (groin) are out.
Key stats: With 35 points (16-11-3), Chicago is the West's second-best road team. … RW Kris Versteeg leads all rookies with 42 points, 26 assists and four short-handed goals. … The Blackhawks haven't played in Tampa since Dec. 2, 2005, a 3-2 Tampa Bay victory. … RW Patrick Kane leads Chicago with 31 assists and 48 points. … Lightning LW Vinny Prospal is minus-9 in his past nine games.

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This video recipe for New York Strip Steak with Warm Caramelized Mushroom Salad is the second in a series of videos I'm doing that focus on cooking various cuts of grass-fed beef.
The New York Strip is a very popular, easy-to-prepare cut, and the most popular steak in America (with the higher-fat Rib Eye coming in a close second and gaining fast).
While I prefer to grill Rib Eye steaks, with the New York Strip, I think a simple pan searing is best. These grass-fed steaks come from Normanton Farms, and were about 8-oz each. This is sort of a standard size for this cut, unless you're talking about a steakhouse portion, which are usually 12 to 16-oz. Since it's a fairly thin piece of meat, it will cook pretty quickly when seared in a hot pan, but especially so if it's from grass-fed cattle.
To recap some grass-fed facts from Episode 1 – Top Round "London Broil," grass-fed beef is much lower in fat, so it cooks faster, and can dry out faster if over-cooked. As you'll hear me say in the video recipe, I only cooked mine for a couple minutes per side to a fairly rare temperature. This ensured a juicy, tender, and flavorful steak.
Speaking of flavorful, I LOVE this warm caramelized mushroom salad as a topping for steaks, especially these steaks. The earthy mushrooms really amplify the beefy flavors of the steak -- and the sherry vinaigrette and fresh tarragon are perfect conduits. I hope you grab yourself some grass-fed beef and give this recipe a try. Enjoy!
For the mushroom salad:
8 large mushrooms, sliced
1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp butter
1/4 cup sherry vinegar
salt to taste
1 whole garlic clove, peeled and bruised
1 tbsp fresh chopped tarragon
For the rest
1 tbsp olive oil
2 (8-oz) New York strip steaks
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
1 tbsp butter to finish sauce

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps to guide the reader through completing the cooking task. While it discusses ingredients and highlights important considerations about cooking the New York Strip Steak and its accompanying mushroom salad, it lacks specific procedural instructions or a structured format that would allow a reader (or a language model) to follow the recipe in a way that promotes deeper reasoning about each step in the cooking process.


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You aren’t getting a long blog post after this 5 1/2-hour mega-marathon. Sorry. You watched the game, you saw what happened, and to recount all that happened would require me staying at PNC Park all night, and it’s already 2:05 a.m. here on the East Coast as I type this.
Jean Machi was the star of the game story for his two innings of relief and the magnificent bunt and stunning sprint up the first base line that forced a rushed throw by pitcher Jared Hughes and allowed Hunter Pence to score the winning run in this wild and crazy 11-10 Giants win. Six straight, 10 of 11, and this one is a real keeper. Here’s the game story link: http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25703880/giants-outlast-pirates-wild-one-11-10
One of the biggest reasons why, beyond Buster Posey’s three hits (one that tied the score in the ninth), the Giants’ season-high eight hits with RISP, Pence’s three hits and a walk, and Santiago Casilla’s epic 14-pitch battle with Neil Walker in the 10th, was the night of young catcher Hector Sanchez.
If you can’t love Sanchez after this game, you need to go soak your head in the nearest toilet. Battling flu symptoms earlier in the day, the dude caught all 13 innings, tied his career high with four hits (including one that tied the score at 9-9 in the seventh), called a masterly game in extra innings and took a brutal beating — a ball off the mask, another off the chest protector, a stinger on the hand and had to chase three wild pitches to the backstop.
Sanchez limped through the clubhouse afterward with a large wrap on his leg and another on his shoulder. All he needed was a head bandage and a piccolo. But approached by reporters at his locker, he flashed that infectious smile of his.
“I’m all right,” he said. “I’m ready to go tomorrow.” He was joking on that latter part. He earned a day off Tuesday in spades, and he’ll take it. I mentioned during the game that he might as well spend the night in the clubhouse and just sleep in the whirlpool.
“I’m a little bit sick,” he said. “But I just tried to drink a lot of water and stay hydrated. I also got hit four or five times. But we got the victory, you know? We battled and fought and battled and got the victory.”
After Posey left the game for a pinch-runner and Pablo Sandoval was subbed out in a double-switch, Sanchez had to be the guy. Manager Bruce Bochy said Brandon Hicks was going to be the emergency catcher if something happened to Hector.
“His groin was a little tight after Posey came out, but I had to keep him in there,” Bochy said. “He’ll be off tomorrow. But he came out and had a big day.”
“Big” almost sells it short. Sanchez was special on this night. And he’s turning into something special for the Giants. He has 14 RBIs, for one thing, which is tied for fifth best on the team even though he has only played in 19 of the team’s 32 games.
So if you’re toasting this win, make sure it’s with some Hector Nectar.

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for the reader to follow; instead, it narrates the events of a baseball game, focusing on individual performances and reactions rather than procedural instructions. Additionally, the content lacks the structured details necessary for training a language model in deeper reasoning, as it does not establish a process or methodology that readers could logically follow or analyze.


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News about Kasey Keller, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
ARTICLES ABOUT KASEY KELLER
The Seattle Sounders of Major League Soccer drew 67,385 fans on Sunday for Clint Dempsey’s first home game with the team.
August 27, 2013, Tuesday
There are two weeks left in Major League Soccer's regular season.
October 14, 2011, Friday
As inventors of the sport, the British can be condescending about the American game. But the view of American soccer in England is actually nuanced and complicated.
May 6, 2010, Thursday
After stops in England, Spain and Germany, Kasey Keller is back in his native Pacific Northwest, playing for the newest team in M.L.S., the Seattle Sounders.
April 12, 2009, Sunday
The World Baseball Classic is giving some a taste of what itinerant soccer players learn at an early age: their best buddy on the national squad may soon be a rival in league play.
March 17, 2009, Tuesday
The draw that goalkeeper Kasey Keller protected Saturday is now a top-five national memory in the short history of American soccer.
June 19, 2006, Monday
The United States and Mexico will square off Sept. 3. The winning team will be able to book a flight to Germany for the 2006 World Cup.
August 19, 2005, Friday
José Hernández, a native of Colombia, has taken Panama to the final stage of regional qualifying for the World Cup.
July 26, 2005, Tuesday
With Brad Friedel's retirement from international soccer, Kasey Keller becomes the front-runner to start at goalkeeper should the U.S. qualify for the 2006 World Cup.
February 9, 2005, Wednesday
It is a long road to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and goalkeeper Jonny Walker knows he probably will not be making the voyage with the United States national team, should it qualify. ''I think I have a professional attitude when it comes to the...

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The article does not present a clear sequence of ordered steps or procedural instructions. Instead, it consists of various news articles and commentary related to Kasey Keller and soccer events, lacking the ordered and detailed guidelines required for training a language model in deeper reasoning. Without structured instructions, it doesn't provide a framework that could encourage complex reasoning or understanding of procedural tasks.


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Monday, October 4, 2010
(PICTURE: Candles containing wishes float down the river in Hue.)
Considering this week is the 1,000th anniversary of Hanoi, what I'm about to say is totally blasphemous: I wish I could spend my last months/year/however-long-the-USA-makes-me-stay in Hue.
This was my third trip to Hue and I think the first time I truly appreciated the city. Here's a list of advantages Hue has over Hanoi:
Advantage 1: Fresh Air.
Advantage 2: Stars at night.
Advantage 3: Very few cars. The small roads aren't nearly as scary when there's not an SUV speeding towards you at a ridiculous KPH.
Advantage 4: Different food. I love Hanoi food but recently my favorite places have started to seem less interesting to me.
Advantage 5: No construction. Okay, yeah, there's construction but in Hue the tallest a house can be (in the old city at least) is 2 stories. Right now in Hanoi they are erecting skyscrapers like it's going out of style.
Advantage 6: Hue is uber-cheap. Believe it or not, I'm complaining about Hanoi prices. However, everything was 50% or less in Hue. A cup of coffee recently has been 20,000 VND at all the cafes near my house. In Hue the most I paid for coffee was 6,000 VND!
Advantage 7: The beach! There is a beach under ten miles away from the center of Hue. Besides that one, there are some great beaches within an hours drive.
The fact is, I'm getting a little fed-up with Hanoi. For my first two years here, I used to drive around every day and think, "I love this place!" Recently though, those moments have been farther and farther apart. That said, I'm going to give myself a big pep talk to really soak up all the time I've got left in Hanoi. I know that as soon as I get stateside I'm gonna be saying, "I wish ___ could be a little more like Hanoi."
NOTE: Friends and family who have asked me about visiting Hue -- I still think you only need a day or two maximum to see everything in the city. This post is more about living there than visiting it as a tourist.

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At 6-foot-3, Delvin Johnson doesn’t exactly appear to have the size needed to dominate the boards in basketball.
But that’s exactly what he did his senior year at Woodruff High School in Woodruff, S.C.
Tags: Delvin Johnson, mini-camp, washington redskins
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The Washington Redskins have completed their first of three mini-camp practice sessions of the 2012 season.
Heavy rains in the Ashburn, Va., area moved the session into the Redskins’ indoor practice facility.
Tags: Chase Minnifield, mini-camp, Pierre Garcon, redskins park, Robert Griffin III, washington redskins
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Those looking for the first-ever professional battle between first-round quarterbacks Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck, look no further.
Well, it’s fun to pretend, at least.
Tags: Madden 13, Robert Griffin III, video games, washington redskins
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New England Patriots’ tight end Rob Gronkowski took the tight end position to a new level in 2011, as the Pats’ offense parlayed his rare combination of size, speed and strength into a record-breaking season.
Gronkowski — who just recently signed a huge contract with the Patriots — is obviously considered by many to be the tight end to beat for the next few years in the NFL, but one Washington Redskins’ tight end also finds himself among that elite group.
Tags: Fred Davis, Tight Ends, washington redskins
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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing any particular task; rather, it consists of a series of fragmented sports-related reports without procedural instructions. Additionally, the content lacks structured directives that could facilitate training a language model in deeper reasoning, as it primarily offers commentary on players and events rather than detailing methods or systematic approaches.


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After much deliberation, I decided to cut the collar on the bias. Thank you all for your thoughtful input!
Doesn’t it look pretty from the back? (Lightened to show detail)
I cut and sewed the collar late last night and then padded it with some cotton batting I had left over from my quilt two years ago. When I took apart the Persian lamb/mink jacket on Saturday, I noticed that the collar was padded with lambswool (there is a lot more structure inside a fur coat than I expected!) so I thought I’d do the same. I kept the batting out of the seam allowances to reduce bulk and attached it with uneven and diagonal basting stitches. It seems like a lot of handwork but it really didn’t take long, maybe an hour. With all the handwork I’ve been doing lately, I am considering learning how to use a thimble!
I cut the batting out of the foldline so that the edge wouldn’t be too thick.
The fronts are stabilized with hair canvas and I am getting ready to stitch bits of bias-cut canvas into the hem area. The hair canvas along the facing foldline gives a nice crisp edge.
The backing of this fur is quite stable (it’s a woven) so I only taped the off-grain areas. I will also stabilize the neck edge by fusing stay tape to the lining neckline (less bulky than more twill tape).
Tomorrow, I am going to experiment with pockets as I’d like to finish them before I stitch the fronts to the back. Once they are done, everything will go together quite quickly! I was hoping to finish by the weekend but I am teaching a 2-day fitting workshop Saturday and Sunday and might be too tired to do anything more until Monday.

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Step-by-step: No
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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task, as it mostly consists of a narrative of the author's sewing process rather than structured instructions. Additionally, while it discusses techniques and materials involved in the sewing project, it lacks detailed procedural instructions or clearly articulated steps that would facilitate training a language model for deeper reasoning. Overall, the text is more of an informal update than a formal guide.


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Hammel allowed three runs -- all on a towering homer by right fielder Andre Ethier -- during a 32-pitch first inning in Game 1 against the Dodgers. He then allowed another run in the second on Mark Ellis’ sacrifice fly.
Of the first 10 batters Hammel faced, six reached base. He needed 51 innings to get through the second inning.
No Orioles starting pitcher has thrown seven innings this season, and it appears Hammel won’t either, which continues to place extra innings on the team’s bullpen.
J.J. Hardy’s two-run homer in the bottom of the second off Dodgers’ starter Hyun-Jin Ryun put the Orioles back in the game at 4-2, and Hammel rebounded nicely in the third with a much-needed nine-pitch inning.Copyright © 2015, The Baltimore Sun

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Step-by-step: No
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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps to guide the reader through completing any specific task. Instead, it offers a narrative about a baseball game and player performances, which lacks structured procedural instructions. The content does not facilitate deeper reasoning as it does not present detailed or clear instructions that could be used for training a language model.


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WWE News WWE NEWS: Smackdown SPOILERS 3/1 - full results for Friday's "Social Media Smackdown," plus post-taping main event
Feb 27, 2013 - 12:15:00 AM
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WWE Smackdown TV taping results
February 26, 2013
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Report by Aaron Webb, PWTorch correspondent
Smackdown TV SPOILERS 3/1
Alberto Del Rio vs. Damien Sandow opened the show.
(1) World Hvt. champion Alberto Del Rio beat Damien Sandow via submission in a non-title match. Del Rio won with the cross arm-breaker.
(2) U.S. champion Antonio Cesaro beat The Miz in a two-out-of-three falls match to retain the U.S. Title. Cesaro won the first fall with the Neutralizer, Miz made him tap to the figure-four for the second fall, and Cesaro reversed a roll-up and pulled the tights after a ref bump for the third fall.
(3) Sin Cara beat Heath Slater with a roll-up.
Jim Ross interviewed Jack Swagger and Dutch (Zeb Colter). Swagger insulted OU and Dutch did his immigration schtick. Ross said he disagrees with their beliefs and Swagger goes to slap Ross's hat off his head, but missed. He got it the second time. Swagger said if Ross isn't part of the solution, then he's part of the problem. He backed Ross into a corner, but Del Rio came out to save the local hero and Jack backed down.
(4) WWE tag champions Daniel Bryan & Kane beat Prime Time Players after a chokeslam. Team Hell No featured Kane blindfolded and Bryan with one arm tied behind his back, reversing the set-up from Raw. Kane's blindfold had a goatface on it, which he wasn't happy about, so he put it on Daniel's head and delivered an uppercut.
Backstage, Matt Striker interviewed Fandango. Fandango kept correcting Striker that it's Fon-dong-oooohhh and refused to wrestle this week since Striker couldn't get it right.
(5) Randy Orton beat Big Show via DQ after The Shield interfered. Sheamus came to help, then Roman Reigns bumps into Big Show and received the WMD. Orton and Sheamus turned their backs on Big Show and Orton took a chokeslam for it. Sheamus then hit Show with a Brogue Kick.
Dark Match: Sheamus & Orton & Kane apparently defeated The Shield in a six-man tag match. The faces hit their finishers and Shield retreated. The ref didn't count them out, though. Orton's music started playing as soon as they rolled out of the ring.
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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task; rather, it is a report on WWE Smackdown results with no instructional content. Additionally, the content lacks the structured, procedural instructions necessary for training a language model, as it primarily focuses on event summaries rather than detailed, logical reasoning or processes.


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Lady Eagles Top Thorndale
The Lady Eagles dusted off their bats with a 3-1 win over Thorndale Saturday morning. Rachel Knipstein pitched an excellent game and battery mate Jessica Parish doubled home the first run and then scored the winning run as the Lady Dog first baseman missed an easy throw at first.
Rachel Knipstein was the story in Saturday's game. The first batter reached on an error. She was caught stealing by catcher Jessica Parish's throw to Ally Abshire. The second batter also reached on an error after an excellent fielding play by Shelby Tackett at third. The third hitter got a single to put a runner in scoring position. Rachel proceded to strike out the next 12 batters that strode to the plate in a dominating performance. After a hit, broke the string, she struck out another. 18 of the 21 outs made a U-turn at home plate heading back to the dugout. The player caught stealing was the 19th, a grounder back to Rachel was the 20th, and a wide turn at second with a tag out was the 21st. Only two of the 18 were called, the rest were clear misses by the Thorndale hitters.
Ashton Johnston led off the third inning with a slap single. Jessica Parish followed with a double scoring Johnston. When Thorndale tried to get Johnston at home, Parish went sliding into third. Parish scored as the Lady Dog first baseman missed a throw on Haley Jatzlau's grounder to second base.
Lexington had scoring opportunities in the second and fourth innings as they loaded the bases but could not score. In the second, Megan Scantlin walked, Rachel Knipstein singled, and Sara Knipstein laid down a bunt Thorndale did nothing with to fill the pads with one out. A tap back to the pitcher resulted in a double play to end the threat. In the fourth Scantlin singled, Rachel singled, and Sara walked to load the bases. A pop out to second and a strike out ended the threat this time.
Lexington added the final run in the sixth. Scantlin led off with a double, advanced to third on Rachel's grounder to second base. Heather Mills' single scored Scantlin easily with the Lady Eagles third run. Lexington played another warm up game with Shiner Tuesday night. The Lady Eagles will then play the winner of the Comfort-Geronimo Navarro bi-district affair.

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task. Instead, it narrates the events of a softball game, focusing on individual plays and player performances rather than offering structured procedural instructions. Consequently, the details presented are not conducive to training a language model for deeper reasoning, as they lack the necessary clarity and instruction needed for a systematic understanding.